Re: [Harp-L] Bent note on Amazing Grace

[Ken Hildebrand <airmojoken@xxxxxxxxx>]

I use the 3 draw/inhale full-step bend (3D'') alot on Amazing Grace... don't need to if you play a Paddy Richter tuned harp... but I like the emotion you can get with the regular 3 draw/inhale full-step bend.

And I use all the holes except maybe hole 10, in 2nd position, starting on 1 draw/inhale... 1D 2D 3D 3D'' 2D 3D 3D 3D'' 2D 2B 1D, etc...


Ken H in OH

--- On Mon, 5/3/10, Philharpn@xxxxxxx <Philharpn@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Philharpn@xxxxxxx <Philharpn@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] Bent note on Amazing Grace
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, May 3, 2010, 8:39 AM
> Where is the bent note(s) in Amazing
> Grace?
> 
> The topic came up during a discussion at Buckeye.
> 
> I've been playing Amazing Grace for
> years   on a C harp in the keys of C, G 
> and F (1st, 2nd 12th positions) and have always found it
> easy to teach 
> beginners. It works in the keys of G and F because
> pentatonic based hymn does 
> not use the 4th note of the scale (F# in key of G) and (Bb
> in key of F).
> 
> I didn't remember where I originally found the tune (based
> on the hymn/form 
> New Britain) so I searched through my print archives and on
> the web -- 
> finding noting different from what I already had. [A jazz
> guitar version has 
> some accidentals (sharps/flats) but that is to be expected
> with jazz.]
> 
> Phil
> 
>